I did already say I hope Caitlyn and Ambessa kiss. I'm holding to that. it's unlikely at this point since Maddie already slid in there but I can always have hope
I saw a theory once about the end of s1 about how the light glinted off the gold on Mel's back/shoulders possibly foreshadowing that she would have some kind of defensive powers that would save them from the blast and I hope that person feels like a genius right now
in fairness it ended up largely cohesively focusing on a story beat that involved Almost Everyone Important but also where is my son. my beautiful son. when he finally gets back to me his time powers better look sick as shit
I think it's interesting that they're reusing a style from s1 that I had associated primarily with Ekko (the hiphop+graffiti/stark blacks and grays and bright colors) but they've been largely using it for Jinx so it's starting to feel more like it's a stylization for Zaun in general
when they did it in part 1 I thought maybe it was foreshadowing for more Jinx and Ekko development later but now it seems like it's just Zaun babies style
saw more Cait discourse and it's wild to me how ppl talking about how Cait just turned around because she loves Vi and/or Cait was wary of Ambessa all along all seem to be missing the part where the entire reason Cait was on this whole bender is because her mom got killed and Vi opened with "I'm trying to save my dad"
it was only while actively in the process of making this tierlist that I realized how much Viktor's Jesus arc actually dropped him down my list tho in total fairness a lot of this is also a product of like, I think Vi and Cait are much stronger characters now in s2 than they were in s1 along with obviously Ambessa and Sevika
we are primarily abt the white people now even while the setup and plots have me actively set up to expect the brown characters and wonder why we're not focusing on them as much
I left part 1 thinking Caitlyn and Ambessa were actively ramping up and then in part 2 they took a backseat. Ekko wasn't here for the Zaun rebellion subplot even tho if anyone's that should have been his coming off of s1 but it couldn't be helped because he got eaten by the arcane but also he wasn't here for the arcane subplot for um. we have no idea,
part 1 and some of part 2 spent all this time building camaraderie with Sevika and Jinx but now that it's Vander family time she is LITERALLY just gone with no explanation
Jayce got to hit something with a hammer twice. don't get me wrong I'm not REALLY complaining about less Jayce screentime, I am just measuring the ratios
I still don't know like. what was the takeaway for the other ppl who got broken out of prison by Jinx and then got immediately mauled by a bear (gay definition)
genius.